Rabies

How veterinary students can help controlling wildlife and feral dog rabies?

Rabies is a neglected disease, but a major threat upon human health in low incomes and developping countries. The veterinary profession is in front of the fight against its transmission from feral dogs and other wildlife reservoirs.

Questions/Answers

Rabies is a tough, but fascinating topic for veterinary students. Rabies is a challenge for vets almost on every continent. Questions on rabies virus, diagnostic, ecology of the disease and its control are asked to rabies experts over the world. The experts kindly accepted to give an answer to the students. Together, students, professors, vets: let us join to control rabies soon.

Address Of Dr Billy Karesh, Chair Of The OIE Working Group On Wildlife Diseases

Four questions on rabies: a student question and the answer of a rabies expert

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More information :

– Shifts of RABV from bats to carnivores in Arizonahttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22737076 Rabies virus evolved originally in bats and further shifted to carnivores, mechanisms of such host shifts are explored in this study in Arizona.

– Drivers of rabies transmission by Vampire batshttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22696521 A capture-recapture study in 20 vampire bat colonies in Peru demonstrated the circulation of RABV in vampire bats from all regions in all years.

– Persons at risk of bat rabies exposures in Thailandhttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21738801 People interviewed, identified bats as a potential source of rabies. A history of a bat bite or scratch was reported, Persons stated either that they would do nothing or that they did not know what they would do.

– Oral rabies vaccination (ORV) in North Americahttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20027214 Challenges are commonplace when applying ORV. Intervention has resulted in successes, including the elimination of an arctic fox (Vulpes lagopus) rabies virus variant